Fishing- rod



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, A. HUTH.

FISHING ROD.

No. 364,3501 Patanted June 7, 1887.

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VADOLPH HUTH, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

FISHING-Roo.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi Letters Patent No. 36:4.-,350I dated June '7, 1887.

Application filed Dceemher 17, i856. Serial No. 221,878.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADoLrn I-IUTH, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fishing-Rodsg-aud I do hereby declare the following to be a iull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in fishing-rods; and it consists in an improved form of tip to be applied tothe outer extremity of the rod for the purpose of affording the line a free and easy play in all directions; and the invention comprises, further, the construetion and combination of the several parts of the tip, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings,illustrating my invention, Figure l is a plan View of the end portion of a fishing-rod provided with myimproved tip. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged end view of the tip.

Like letters of reference designate like parts in the various iigures.

A represents the smooth metallic shank of my improved tip. It has a screw-threaded tubular opening, a, at the bottom, into which is inserted the end of the iishing-rod R. In this' way the tip is securely fastened to the rod; but it is obvious that various other modes of securing the tip to the vrod may be employed. The upper or topmost end of this shank is enlarged to form a head, B, which has a central tubular passage, b, extending through it longitudinally and passing downward into the shank until it meets the transverse slot or eye o. Along the opposite sides of the shank A are grooves d, which pass longitudinally from the eye c until they gradually merge into' the surface of the shank. rlhey receive the line and conduct it into the passage Z, whence it emerges at the end of the tip.

In the enlarged head B is journaled a circular series of four (or more or less) rollers or sheaves, C. These rollers are peripherally (No mod'el.)

grooved. The head B is provided with radial slots, in which the rollers arejournaled, all in the same plane, which is transverse to the shank. It will thus be seen that a certain portion of the wall of the tubular passage I) nea rest the end of the tip will loel formed by the peripheral surfaces of the rollers; hence the line which passes through the opening b will, in whatever direction the rod may be turned, be allowed to rest upon and be guided by a roller. Thus the line will be always kept surely upon the end of the rod; it will have a -free and easy movement; it eannotbecome entangled, nor will it be liable to be cut upon the sharp edges of the rod.

I am aware that fishiugrod tips have here tofore been provided with a single pulley for the purpose of giving an easy movement to the line, and likewise with other analogous devices for the same purpose. I do not, therefore, seek to broadly cover a fishing-rod tip having a roller; but,

Having thus described my invenlion,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A tip for lishing-rods, consisting of a slotted shank. and a circular series of rollers or sheaves j ourualed in the end of the shank around the passage b, substantially as described.

2. A tip for fishing-rods, comprising the shank A, having the eye c, groove d, and head B, with .passage b, and the circular series ot' peripherallylgrooved rollers C, journaled in the head about the passage b, substantially as described.

3. In a tip for fishingrods, the shank with its tubularly-bored head, in combination with a series of four or more grooved rollers journaled in the head around the passage therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH RUTH.

1Witnesses:

ANTON I-IUrr, JOHN MANNsMANN. 

